I watched it live with no problems.
But, again, you have to first reroute your IP and signal through an ad-blocker site and let them deal with the low end hack attacks. Some of those sites are useful for such rare occasions. Or it helps if your computer is loaded for bear with software by Moxie Marlinspike.
And as for spying and hacking, anyone who upgrades to Windows 10 is now broadcasting every aspect of their computer usage. If you open up a document or a folder now, and have a web hook up,lots of folks know about it realtime.
Of course one can always just fork over the dough. But that debate was worthless aside from Ted Cruz' attack on the mods and Trump's closing remarks saying "Thanks to my dealing we can get the hell out of here!"